Your say: week beginning August 24

0 August 23, 2026 17:49

On a person’s right to abortion and leaving minerals in the ground: an edited selection of your views.

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Monday August 24

“Opposing abortion is opposing a person’s rights, and their quality of life. Altering laws to limit or eliminate a person’s right to abortion is forcing the person to invest their life in a child. This is of course a joy for people usually, but when it isn’t, this idea is an abomination. In addition this initiative always comes from extremists and fanatics in the USA. Some Australians cleave to ancient attitudes about sex, but political manipulation is always USA-inspired foreign interference.”

Kym Houghton

“This article spells out with complete clarity the disparity created by destructive capitalism and the need to consider our earth for the future. Do we actually want to support the American war machine? Do we want to support data centres in a dry continent? Is it conscionable to do so? As a humanist and ecologist, I would leave the mineral in the ground. Money is simply not worth it.”

Isabelle Canty

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